Tom Blyth enters A Few Good Men as Broadway performances begin October 8 at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre. Krysta Rodriguez, who plays Lieutenant Commander Joanne Galloway, said of Aaron Sorkin’s dialogue: “You get to play someone a hundred times smarter than you are, and you just look so good.”
Krysta Rodriguez at Vivian Beaumont Theatre
That line captures the draw of the revival better than any production note could. Rodriguez’s Galloway sits inside a story built around two military lawyers defending two Marines charged with the murder of a fellow Marine after a hazing gone wrong, with the play moving toward the military conspiracy at its center.
Aaron Sorkin’s first play also carries a neat bit of origin-story economy: he wrote A Few Good Men on cocktail napkins while bartending at the Palace Theatre on Broadway. For this revival, that lineage gives the run a built-in talking point, but the practical news is simpler — the show has already started its Broadway life, so ticket holders are no longer waiting on previews to become real performances.
October 29 opening night
The tension in the schedule is straightforward: performances started on October 8, but the official opening night does not arrive until October 29. That gap leaves the production in the unusual position of playing in public before it has reached its formal launch, which means the early audience is seeing the show before the run settles into its opening-night framing.
Through January 10, 2027, the production is set for a 13-week engagement. For a limited Broadway run, that means the window to see it is narrow, and the calendar is already doing part of the marketing work.
Playbill's first look
The cast spoke to Playbill ahead of the first preview at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre, and Jeffrey Vizcaíno learned the cocktail-napkin detail from a recent interview with Aaron Sorkin and the cast. For readers tracking the revival as a stage event rather than a nostalgia piece, the practical takeaway is that the production is live now, opening night is still ahead, and the clock to January 10 is already running.
Tom Blyth makes the piece click because the revival is not just arriving on Broadway; it is arriving with a short timetable, a named opening date, and a play that has been tied to Sorkin’s own origin story from the start. The smart move is to watch the first weeks closely, because this is the part of the run that will define how much heat the production carries into October 29.
